Designing our descendants : the promises and perils of genetic modifications / edited by Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2003], ©2003.

xiv, 370 pages ; 23 cm

Framing the issues / Audrey R. Chapman and Mark S. Frankel -- Germ-line dancing: definitional considerations for policy makers / Eric Juengst and Erik Parens -- Approaches to gene transfer to the mammalian germ line / Theodore Friedmann -- Scientific methodologies to facilitate inheritable genetic modifications in humans / Bhavani G. Pathak -- Germ-line modification in clinical medicine: is there a case for intentional or unintended germ-line changes? / R. Michael Blaese -- Gene repair, genomics, and human germ-line modification / Kenneth W. Culver -- Germ-line gene therapy: can we do it, do we need it, where do we start, and where might it lead? / Christopher H. Evans -- The moral impasse in human embryo research: bypasses in the making? / John Fletcher -- The implications of inheritable genetic modifications for justice / Audrey R. Chapman -- The hidden eugenic potential of germ-line interventions / Troy Duster -- Ethical differences between inheritable genetic modification and embryo selection / Bonnie Steinbock -- Human limits: theological perspectives on germ-line modification / Ronald Cole-Turner -- Germ-line intervention and the moral tradition of the Catholic Church / Albert Moraczewski -- Uncountable as the stars: inheritable genetic intervention and the human future, a Jewish perspective / Laurie Zoloth -- Parental liberty and the right of access to germ-line intervention: a theological appraisal of parental power / Sondra Wheeler -- Inheritable genetic modifications: do we owe them to our children? / Pilar N. Ossorio -- National policies to oversee inheritable genetic modifications research / Julie Gage Palmer and Robert Cook-Deegan -- Designing tomorrow's children: the right to reproduce and oversight of germ-line interventions / Cynthia B. Cohen -- To market, to market: effects of commerce on cross-generational genetic change / Mark S. Frankel and Michele S. Garfinkel -- Recommendations for policy / Mark S. Frankel and Audrey R. Chapman -- Appendix A. Consent form for participation in a study of inheritable germ-line modification / Julie Gage Palmer -- Appendix B. AAAS report on IGM: major findings, concerns, and recommendations.

Includes bibliographical references and index.